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here.Henry Giroux "Youth and the Politics of Disposability in Dark
Times": Dr. Henry A. Giroux argues that with the rise of market
fundamentalism and the ensuing economic and financial meltdown, youth
are facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation. Young people,
especially low income and poor minority youth, are no longer seen as a
social investment but are increasingly interpreted as a social problem
and burden.Chronis Polychroniou: How do you define neoliberalism?Henry Giroux: Neoliberalism, or what can be called
the latest stage of predatory capitalism, is part of a broader project
of restoring class power and consolidating the rapid concentration of
capital. It is a political, economic and political project that
constitutes an ideology, mode of governance, policy and form of public
pedagogy.
As an ideology, it construes profit-making as the essence of
democracy, consuming as the only operable form of citizenship, and an
irrational belief in the market to solve all problems and serve as a
model for structuring all social relations.
As a mode of governance, it produces identities, subjects, and ways
of life free of government regulations, driven by a survival of the
fittest ethic, grounded in the idea of the free, possessive individual,
and committed to the right of ruling groups and institutions to accrue
wealth removed from matters of ethics and social costs.
As a policy and political project, neoliberalism is wedded to the
privatization of public services, selling off of state functions,
deregulation of finance and labor, elimination of the welfare state and
unions, liberalization of trade in goods and capital investment, and the
marketization and commodification of society.To read more work by Henry A Giroux and other authors in the Public Intellectual Project, please click here.